After sweeping the series last week, the Rays and Marlins got into a funny little Twitter war. The Marlins tweeted back "You are literally the animal that killed Steve Irwin." And of course, they had to apologize because thin skinned babies got offended. If you are "offended" by this, you aren't. You are either grossly misunderstood the Tweet or you are just trying to get attention.
Commentators could write about people getting offended too easily in our culture and nothing will change. In fact, it'll only get worse. Getting offended by things is a sport. It makes us feel holy, righteous, gives us attention, etc. This wasn't even an insult to Steve Irwin-it was a harmless joke on Twitter. I am stunned that people are claiming to be offended by this.
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